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AIR CANADA plans to begin Toronto-/Montreal-Tulum, Mexico in early May and Toronto-Charleston on March 28.

JAPAN AIRLINES took delivery of its first of 13 A350-1000s on order.

REGOURD AVIATION, Franced exclusively mandated Airstream to sell ATR 72-600 (1288); aircraft is currently parked.

AERSALE announced secondary offering of 4m shares by Leonard Green & Partners; RBC Capital Markets is underwriter.

Florian Guillermet was selected as next Executive Director of EASA.

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES and AMERICAN AIRLINES launched codeshare partnership for services between two countries.

PORTER AIRLINES and ALASKA AIRLINES announced codeshare partnership for services between two countries.

DEUTSCHE AIRCRAFT has LOI from an undisclosed customer for four 40-seat D328eco turboprops.

DAHER delivered its 100th TBM 960 to California-based TITAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT GROUP through Avex, CA.

TRUENOORD agreed to acquire 11 aircraft (four Dash 8-400s, three E175s and four E190) from Nordic Aviation Capital, increasing its fleet to 87 aircraft; aircraft are leased to Aviair, LOT, Widerøe, Air Canada and Breeze Airways.

HUMO AIR wet-leased (ACMI) two A320-200s from Fly2Sky through March '24 for operation out of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

RYANAIR is investing $1.4b to boost services in Morocco in Summer 2024; it is opening new base at Tangier with two 737s, increasing based fleet in country to 14 (seven at Marrakesh; three at Fez; two at Agadir) serving 175 routes.

ASHLAND PLACE issued its inaugural aviation loan asset-backed securitization (ABS) of $324.3m, backed by a static pool of loan facilities secured by 19 narrowbodies, three widebodies and four narrowbody engines on lease to 12 lessees.

Dr. Alejandra Uranga to Chief Engineer-Research and Future Concepts of Electra, Manassas, VA.

SWIFTAIR, Spain agreed to lease two EFW-converted A321P2Fs from AerCap for delivery in April/June 2024.

JAPAN AIRLINES plans January 2024 to introduce its first A350-1000 on Tokyo Haneda-JFK; it is scheduled to receive its second aircraft by end 1Q24 to enable daily A350-1000 operations. It will operate third aircraft on Haneda-DFW.

LOGANAIR leased ex-Avianca ATR 72-600 (1124) from Jetstream Aviation Capital.

FLYHT extended deal with Jordan Aviation to provide suite of software services, including SATCOM, FLYHTLog, FleetWatch, FLYHTHealth and FLYHTQAR, for five aircraft.

DOKASCH, Frankfurt achieved technical approval for its temperature-controlled Opticooler RKN active containers with Air Canada Cargo.

AMETEK MRO DRAKE AIR received Nadcap accreditation for welding.